Bette Mandl, EdD

Professor Emerita
Department of English

Phone: 617-573-8277
Fax: 617-305-1744
Email: bmandl@suffolk.edu
Office: Fenton Building, Rm. 119

Education

  • EdD, Boston University
  • MA, New York University
  • BA, Brooklyn College

Research Interests

  • Modern American Drama
  • Neuroscience and the Arts
  • Women and Literature
  • Modern British Literature

Employment History

At Suffolk since 1976.

Publications

"Thinking Aloud’ in Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude." The Eugene O’Neill Review. 26(2004): 24-30.

"Broadway Boundaries: Neil Simon and Popular Culture." The Playwright’s Muse. Ed. Joan Herrington. NY: Routledge, 2002. 78-89.

"Women's Movement: The Personal as Political in the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein." Wendy Wasserstein: A Casebook, ed. Claudia Barnett. NY: Garland, 1999. 3-11.

"Beyond Laughter and Forgetting: Echoes of the Holocaust in Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers." Neil Simon: A Casebook. Ed. Gary Konas. NY: Garland, 997. 69-77.

"'Alive Still in You': Memory and Silence in A Shayna Maidel." Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama. Ed. Marc Maufort. N.Y.: Peter Lang Publishing, 1995. 259-265.

"Gender and Design in Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude." The Eugene O'Neill Review. 19 (Spring and Fall, 1995):123-128.

"Desire under the Elms." Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 49. Ed. Laurie Di Mauro. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Inc., 1993. 296-298.

"Absence as Presence: The Second Sex in The Iceman Cometh." Eugene O'Neill: The Critical Response. Ed. John Houchin. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood UP, 1993. 184-190.

"Disturbing Women: Wendy Kesselman's My Sister in this House." Modern American Drama: The Female Canon. Ed. June Schlueter. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1990. 246-253.

"Feminism, Postfeminism and The Heidi Chronicles." Studies in the Humanities 17 (December,1990): 120-128.

"Theatricality and Otherness in God's All Chillun Got Wings." Feminist Re-readings of Modern American Drama. Ed. June Schlueter. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1989. 48-56.

"Wrestling with the Angel in the House: Mary Tyrone's Long Journey." The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter XII (Winter 1988): 19-24.

"Family Ties: Landscape and Gender in Desire Under the Elms." The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter XI (Winter 1987): 19-23.

"Images of Transformation: Joyce's Ulysses in Mid-Lfe." Journal of Mental Imagery 10 (Summer 1986): 79-86.

"The Politics of Representation in The Marriages between Zones Three, Four and Five." Notes on Contemporary Literature XV (March 1985): 4-5.

"Absence as Presence: The Second Sex in The Iceman Cometh." The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter 6 (Summer/Fall 1982): 10-15.

"Martha Quest: The Dynamics of Mood." Doris Lessing Newsletter 5 (Winter, 1981): 3-4.

Courses Taught

ENG 103 - Advanced Freshman English
ENG 216 - World Literature in English
ENG 343 - The 19th Century English Novel
ENG 366 - Modern British Fiction
ENG 387 - Women and Literature
SF 101 - Seminar for Freshmen